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Typhoo Lemon Zester Herbal Tea Review

A Very Sour and Different Tasting
Tea

Summary : Assuming you get past the first sip and adjust
to the sour flavor of this tea, I found this tea grows on you...a bit.
I'd be hard pressed to say this is a "lemon tea" per se, but it does
have a lemon flavor, different as it may be.

Review : The other night I had a unpleasant tea tasting
experience with a peppermint
tea from Typhoo. And I'll admit, because of that, I did not approach
this tea with anything bordering on irrational exuberance, although I
can honestly say I wasn't totally dreading the tea. After all, this is,
or at least is supposed to be, a lemon tea. And I love lemon teas. So,
I did my best to keep an open mind and my hopes high.

Here is how Typhoo describes this tea : "With the tangy zest of
Lemon, this refreshing drink is bursting with flavour. Real fruit infusion."

As you can see, this tea contains quite the shopping list of ingredients.
And one ingredient caught my eye in particular....Maltodextrin. What
is that doing in a tea? But whatever.

I'll confess my sins tonight though. After opening up the foil wrapper
my spirits found new depths of despair. Why? Simple. ALL good lemon teas
I've ever liked before have always had a very powerful fragrance of lemon.
After all, lemon is a powerful fragrance. And if a "lemon tea" has any
hopes of really tasting like lemon, if the fragrance isn't there, it's
highly unlikely the flavor will be either.

And to some degree, I was correct, albeit not entirely.

First off, let's get this out of the way. Do you like sour things? You
know...highly sour candy that makes your mouth pucker and your eyes water?
Well, then I suspect you'll like this tea to some degree. I nearly choked
on the sourness of this tea on my first sip.

However, I seemed to get "adjusted" a bit to the sour level found in
this tea. And once that happened, I did indeed notice a "different" lemon
flavor. Now admittedly, I could NEVER call this a true lemon tea, as
the lemon flavor is simply too different from other lemon teas to be
in the same league.

Yet, I can't entirely say I hated the different flavor this tea has.
Once you get past the sourness, the "different lemon flavor" does sort
of hit you. And, since I do not totally despise sour things, I sort of
liked if not necessarily loved the flavor of this tea.

What this all means is that this tea is highly different, and if you
are searching for a true lemon tea, then keep searching, as this one
isn't for you. However, if you have adventurous taste buds and are just
dying to experience what a "sour tea" tastes like, well, this tea from
Typhoo "might" be worth your investment. At a minimum, you'll certainly
get a new tea tasting experience. It may not be a happy one, but it will
certainly be "new and different."

Recommendation : Not really. The tea isn't awful. But
it's not a good lemon tea, that's for sure. But if you feel experimental
AND enjoy sour things (like sour hard candy), you might find a use
for this tea in your cupboard from time to time.